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PROCEEDINGS OF THE CLUB 

 January 13, 19 14 



The annual meeting of the Club was held on January 13, 1914, 

 at the American Museum of Natural History at 8:15 P.M. 

 President Burgess presided. Fourteen persons were present. 

 The minutes of December 9 were read and approved. 



Mrs. L. N. Keeler, Scarsdale, N. Y. and F. L. Pickett, Indiana 

 University, Bloomington, Indiana, were nominated for member- 

 ship. The resignations of the following members were read and 

 accepted: Mrs. Pamela Eakins, Mrs. George Such, Mrs. Henry 

 Dinkelspiel, Mrs. Alice Popper, Miss Mary Brackett, Wm. 

 Holmes, and Albert Caiman. Mrs. L. M. Keeler and F. L. 

 Pickett were then elected to membership in the Club. 



The annual reports of the officers of the Club were next in 

 order. The secretary reported that fifteen meetings had been 

 held during the year with an average attendance of 15 persons. 

 Eleven new members have been elected during the year. Nine 

 resignations have been accepted and five deaths have occurred. 

 The report was accepted and ordered placed on file. 



The treasurer's report was presented and upon motion was 

 referred to the auditing committee. 



Mr. Norman Taylor, editor of Torreya, presented a special 

 report relating to that journal. This report was accepted. 



Mr. Sereno Stetson, chairman of the field committee, then gave 

 his report and upon motion of Dr. Britton this was accepted and 

 a vote of thanks was extended to Mr. Stetson for the work which 

 he did in connection with these field meetings. Remarks were 

 made by Miss Jean Broadhurst, Dr. Mansfield, Professor Harper 

 and others relating to. future field meetings. 



Dr. Britton, chairman of the local flora committee, announced 

 that the work on the local flora being prepared by Mr. Norman 

 Taylor would be published as a Memoir of the New York Botan- 

 ical Garden and goes to press some time in February. Professor 

 Harper remarked upon the advisability of continuing the local 

 flora work with a special reference to a study of the Cryptogamic 

 flora. 



